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To: AndrewC
Wrong. You seem to misunderstand what has happened. People have the innate ability to digest lactose. It is turned off. When it is needed it is turned on.

Not true. People may have the gene that allows them digest lactose as children, but if you lock a man without the mutation that in a room with nothing but milk, he'll never be able to digest it no matter how long you leave him there, no matter how great the need. A mutation has to occur.

81 posted on 12/11/2006 8:39:20 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

No, he can't, but what if this happens with his grandchildren:
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461547549_761564762_-1_1/Recessive_Gene_Transmission.html


86 posted on 12/11/2006 8:51:33 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: Alter Kaker
Not true. People may have the gene that allows them digest lactose as children, but if you lock a man without the mutation that in a room with nothing but milk, he'll never be able to digest it no matter how long you leave him there, no matter how great the need. A mutation has to occur.

Absolutely true, I gave you a specific example. And a mutation is a change. What do you think turning something on or off is? It is a change. Here is the composition of HUMAN breast milk.

Major nutrients. Lactose, 5.5-6.0g/dL, is the most constant nutrient in human milk (Table I). Its concentration in breast milk is not affected by maternal nutrition. Proteins amount to about 0.9g/dL in mature milk.[12]Recent studies comparing the impact of nutrition on lactation in industrialized and developing countries suggest that neither maternal diet nor body composition affects milk protein level.[1] However, limited data from earlier studies seem to indicate that short-term, high-protein diets can increase the protein and nonprotein nitrogen content of human milk,[13] while limiting maternal food intake can lead to lower milk protein levels.[13-15]

91 posted on 12/11/2006 9:05:11 AM PST by AndrewC (Duckpond, LLD, JSD (all honorary))
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